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Sep 28 2023
News
U.S., China Talks Gain Momentum, Paving Way for Xi-Biden Summit
Beijing and Washington are paving the way for Chinese leader Xi Jinping to visit the U.S., moving ahead with high-level official exchanges and taking other steps to improve the tone of their turbulent relations.
Both sides are discussing a trip to Washington by Xi’s top economic-policy aide, Vice Premier He Lifeng, according to people briefed on the matter. He would be the most-senior
Wall Street Journal (News)Sep 03 2023
News
Biden 'Disappointed' That Xi Set To Miss G20
US President Joe Biden on Sunday expressed disappointment that Chinese leader Xi Jinping would not attend the G20 summit in India this week, as Washington seeks to repair relations with Beijing. Asked about Xi reportedly not planning to join the gathering in New Delhi, Biden told reporters, "I am disappointed, but I am going to get to see him," without elaborating. Bilateral ties between the
Barron'sFeb 09 2022
Opinion
Controversy over gold medalist Eileen Gu skiing for China misses the point
It turns out Olympic gold medalist Eileen Gu and I have something in common. We were both athletes at University High School in San Francisco.
She is one of the best skiers in the world and I was the backup first baseman on the varsity baseball team, so the similarity only goes so far. I don't follow sports other than baseball, so I learned of Gu only a few days ago when I saw a picture
CNN (Opinion)Sep 05 2023
News
Pentagon refuses to be drawn on Chinese 'gate-crashers' at military bases
Chinese nationals posing as lost tourists have attempted to sneak onto U.S. military bases and other secured sites more than 100 times in the past few years as Beijing experiments with non-traditional methods of espionage. Some of the more audacious attempts have included so-called tourists accidentally scuba diving in the cloudy waters near a U.S. rocket launch site in Florida to people
Washington ExaminerAug 20 2023
News
The US is distancing itself from its longtime scientific partner
The U.S. and China are severing ties in scientific research as tensions continue to accelerate between the two countries.
In Washington, some U.S. lawmakers are eager to see a decades-long joint science and technology agreement expire without further renewal. The agreement was signed in 1979 and has been routinely extended ever since.
The last time Beijing signed the agreement
SemaforSep 04 2023
News
Biden’s Strategy Toward China Is ‘Doomed to Fail,’ Ministry Says
China criticized the Biden administration’s strategy toward Beijing as being “doomed to fail,” less than a week after Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo’s visit to the Asian nation aimed at bolstering ties. The focus by US on “competition and controlling competition” is fundamentally no different than its decades-old approach of “engagement and containment,” China’s Ministry of State Security
BloombergJun 20 2023
News
China negotiating with Havana about joint military training facility in Cuba
China and Cuba are in active conversations about creating a new joint military training facility on the island nation 100 miles from the American homeland.
According to a senior U.S. official, Beijing and Havana are discussing what kind of training would take place at the facility and what the leadership structure would look like. Biden administration officials have brought up these
PoliticoJun 20 2023
News
With visit to China, Blinken clears a diplomatic path, but it's unclear where it goes
With visit to China, Blinken clears a diplomatic path, but it's unclear where it goes Secretary of State Antony Blinken's long-anticipated trip to Beijing shows that the administration is keen to reignite diplomacy and inject some stability to its dealings with China, but whether it was a success remains to be seen. Blinken held talks with China's top two foreign policy officials and even had
NPR Fact CheckJun 19 2023
News
Blinken Meets Xi, Says U.S. Does Not Support Taiwan Independence
Secretary of State Antony Blinken stated that the U.S. does not support Taiwan’s independence after meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday. Blinken was in Beijing to warm U.S. relations with China, which have become strained in recent years over several issues, including Taiwan. “We do not support Taiwan independence,” Blinken said at a press conference after his meeting with the
The Daily WireJun 19 2023
News
Blinken Holds Surprise Meeting With Xi Jinping Over U.S.-China Relations
In Beijing on Monday, U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken met with Chinese President Xi Jinping to discuss mending the relations between the two superpowers. Xi stressed that the world needed a “generally stable” relationship between the two countries, which “bears on the future and destiny of humanity.” The pair were reportedly able to make progress on a few issues, though those were
Daily Beast